Video Category: Lecture
Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales, Wines, and Extreme Beverages
Patrick McGovern, biomolecular archaeologist at the Penn Museum and the leading authority on ancient...
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Great Battles Lecture: The Scopes Monkey Trial
"Great Battles" Evening Lecture A Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Event The Scopes...
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Changing Views of the Past: Archaeology & Epigraphy at Quirigua 1840-2010
Penn Museum Scholars Lecture: Quirigua, Guatemala, Robert J. Sharer presents studies in Quirigua Gua...
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A Tale of Two "Cities": Karphi & Kavousi
Penn Museum's Maya Weekend is one of the largest and oldest meetings in the United States devoted to...
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Classic Maya Gods: Epigraphic and Comparative Perspectives
Penn Museum's Maya Weekend is one of the largest and oldest meetings in the United States devoted to...
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The Structures and Symmetry of Maya Time
Penn Museum's Maya Weekend is one of the largest and oldest meetings in the United States devoted to...
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Greece and Asia in the Late Bronze Age: The Historical Background of Homer's Iliad
Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, speaks. In 19...
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Keeping Time in the Maya Highlands: Evidence from the Preclassic
Recent discoveries of uncarved stela and altar pairings at El Naranjo, now a suburb of Guatemala Cit...
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Antiquities and Museum Acquisitions: Penn Museum Leading the Way
In 1970, the Penn Museum stopped acquiring antiquities that had been looted from their archaeologica...
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Year of Water Spring Symposium: The Blue Frontier, Part I
Year of Water Spring Symposium The Blue Frontier: Water in a Modern World This spring symposium,...
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The Maya and 2012: Fact, Fantasy, and Phenomenon
The Maya and 2012: Fact, Fantasy, and Phenomenon In recent years there has been a gathering storm o...
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Year of Water Spring Symposium: The Blue Frontier, Part IV
This spring symposium, part of Penn's Year of Water, explores water as a force in modern societies a...
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Great Battles: The Siege and Fall of Masada
"Great Battles" Evening Lecture The Siege and Fall of Masada In the 1st century BCE, King Herod th...
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Year of Water Spring Symposium: The Blue Frontier, Part II
Year of Water Spring Symposium The Blue Frontier: Water in a Modern World This spring symposium,...
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Cultural Encounters in the Diaspora: When African and African-American Cultures Meet
Dr. Cheikh Anta Babou, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches African Histo...
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Financial Crisis! Economic Lessons from Ancient Athens
Edward E. Cohen, Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Trustee Eme...
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Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globilization.
Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan, a traveling exhibition organized by the Textile Museum of C...
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Ancient Artifacts In Court: How the Case of Rubin v. Iran Could Affect Museums
In this lunchtime lecture, Laina Lopez, an attorney with Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, will discus...
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PCHC: Contested Heritage: Archaeology Museums in Turkey
Turkey will soon be home to a series of new, state-of-the-art, archaeology museums. Such buildings a...
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Great Battles: From Actium to an Asp, The Beginning of the End for Cleopatra the Great
In the years following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, internal Roman power struggles—combin...
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Sags, Bags, and Wrinkles in Roman Portraiture
When one visualizes the Roman Republic, the first image that usually comes to mind is that of a male...
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Great Battles: The First Crusade Three Battles for Latin Christendom
From 1096 to 1101, over 100,000 people from all over Western Europe set off towards Jerusalem. These...
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Great Battles: Was there a Trojan War? Recent Excavations at Troy
Was there a Trojan War? Assessing the Evidence from Recent Excavations at Troy In the course of the...
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Douglas G Lovell, Jr , Annual "Reports from the Field"
Douglas G. Lovell, Jr., Annual "Reports from the Field" The Kolb Society of Fellows focuses its res...
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Great Battles: Gettysburg History and Hype
"Great Battles" Evening Lecture Gettysburg: History and Hype It is conventional to depict Gettysbu...
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The End of Time The Maya Mystery of 2012
The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012 Dr. Anthony F. Aveni, author of the bestselling book, T...
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Maya Majesty: Kings and Queens of the Classic Period
Simon Martin, Co-Curator, MAYA 2012: Lords of Time and co-author, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Qu...
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On the Road with John Henry Haynes
Virtually unknown today, John Henry Haynes (1849--1910) may be regarded as the father of American ar...
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Temples that speak: Art and Architecture at Copan, Honduras
Honduran archaeologist Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Executive Director of the Copan Association, prese...
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Great Battles: A Tale of Two City States: Quirigua's Victory over Copan in 738 CE
Part of our Great Battles: Moments in Time that Changed History Lecture Series Honduran archaeolo...
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